Who would have thought that someone could get so much mileage out of being a small gear in such a huge machine? This post on Stuff I’ve learned at Microsoft details the discoveries of one Sriram Krishnan, veteran of a mere five years at Redmond. It is a long document – you’ll want to bookmark [...]

CNET picked up an interesting scoop about media usage in the youngster’s demographic. Kids pack in nearly 11 hours of media use daily. Now, pause and consider that: If you count 6 hours per day in school, this leaves 7 hours per night for sleep! We’ll assume this is averaged out from where the kids [...]

When we spotted the post In Praise of Passion over at Boing-Boing, it got us thinking. As Internet marketers, we all know that our digital strategy should include website design, search engine optimization, advertising, and so on. But how many of us think about whether we’re inspiring passion? Some ideas for generating passion around your [...]

It’s worth checking in over at Programmable Web once in awhile just to see what they’re up to, with their API discoveries. Google, Twitter, Flickr, and all, the defining mark of a popular Web 2.0 service is whether people do things with your API. Notable developments from just one recent week: Comedy on Spotify – [...]

In 2010 and going forward, we start a new decade. It’s time to shake things up a little, so here’s a list of web design trends which got overused in the first decade of the 2000s, and so have become tired and cliched: Grunge – Splattered, sloppy, gritty, urban, and looking dirty. Grunge looked great [...]

Rather than the run-of-the-mill designs we normally see, what if your next design came from someplace… unexpected? A brilliantly contrary motif that makes sense in retrospect? Here are our picks for some themes you might not have thought of, but should: Hand drawn – Example It always looks brilliantly original, because it’s your own hand! [...]

It seems that minimalism is never going to go out of style. Latest exhibit: Minimalist Web Design: When Less is More. A long tutorial on what exactly it is that makes a site design minimalist, and some excellent examples at the bottom. One thing that we notice is that designers often spoil the effect of [...]

We cheer when we see posts championing underdog technology, like this one on Why Designers Should Ditch The Mouse And Use A Tablet. Now, true, tablets aren’t exactly “underdog,” but they could stand to gain more mind share than they have, particularly with designers who started out in the ’90s. The difference with a tablet [...]

One trick to SEO is that you have to have your own original content – and then get credit for it! It can really bum you out when you slaved over your site’s content, only to see a higher-ranking site scrape it and use it to appear in search results ahead of you! While the [...]